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Emoji are such a terrible idea. What it means depends entirely on what the emoji designer wants.

There was an article shared here by emojipedia that showed, besides the obvious gun emoji turning into a toy gun and then back into a gun, subtle differences between designs changing the MEANING of a message on the internet.

Can you imagine if you write a word like "imagine" that changes meaning depending on what font the user has installed? It's probably a nightmare for preservation as well. You can't record the text, you have to record a screenshot of the emoji because in 50 years who knows what it's going to look like!


Do people not write tests anymore?

How is 1 + 1 = 2 hard to test?

Vibe coded implementation paired with vibe coded tests made to fit the implementation?


Reminds me of the decimal point scene in Office Space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fGHaVn5rGo


>AI billing audit startup Vaudit reviewed $34 million in AI invoices submitted by 60 enterprise customers and found approximately $1.7 million in mistaken overcharges — a billing error rate of roughly five percent.

That sounds bad.


When all you have is a hammer, but the hammer looks more like a swiss knife


I currently have a problem with Rust that I use Rust-Analyzer for syntax and autocomplete in VS Code and it has to run the compiler when you save a file to "refresh" things.

As you may imagine, this is insanely slow.

So slow that when I switch from a .rs file to a .ts file I feel like I switched computers.


A better comparison would be Python.

The way Python added types is the most disgusting thing imaginable... but it has type hints now, so I guess that makes some people happy.


They caught a 19 year old hacker that uses Edge, and all it took was the privacy of 1.4 billion Windows users.


I wonder if blender works on wayland, because it has a feature that makes the mouse cursor "loop" across the window if you are dragging something.


That features works completly fine when I use Blender(5.2) and wayland cant say if older versions might not work.


The protocol for this has recently been accepted, now it has to be implemented by every compositor


That sounds like hell. All this just to set the X, Y of the mouse pointer?


Not even, this was deemed too insecure. So now we have to have one protocol per-use case instead of something that allows to handle easily all the use cases we already know exist - the most stupid thing possible


> That sounds like hell.

Wayland isn't an eternal punishment, it's just a protocol. :p


I'm not sure I understand. If X11 software requires a X11 server and you have a Wayland compositor, how do you "avoid" XWayland?


I may be wrong but I think the word you want is anthropocentric, not anthropomorphic. Anthropomorphism is turning something that isn't human into something human, e.g. an AI, while anthropocentrism is taking human as the center and default state of things.


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